Rare project developers

[Simon Leinen <>]

Frédéric LOUI writes:
> But the discussion stopped when they asked me how many units of
> switches we plan to sell ! :-)

Marketing department here :-)

Don't be too modest! While we don't sell boxes directly, we have a good
track record of enabling people to make their Tofino switches usable
(with RARE/freeRtr).  Should be in the multiple dozens by now, no?
-- 
Simon.

>> Le 3 mars 2023 à 11:24, Alexander Gall <> a écrit :
>> 
>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 11:01:17 +0100, Frédéric LOUI
>> <> said:
>> 
>>>> I concluded that this should be asterfusion-x312p,
>> 
>>> Yes, if you could suggest to populate /etc/machine.conf to
>>> AsterFusion that would be ideal …
>> 
>>> Other than that we can create a ONIE rescue and use
>>> "asterfusion-x312p-48y-t" or "asterfusion-x312p"
>> 
>>>> In any case, the value should not be "switch_os ».
>> 
>> I have looked at the ONIE partition csaba has provided (specifically
>> the initrd within that) and it seems clear that this ONIE has not
>> been branded at all for Asterfusion. Definitely something to take up
>> with them. I think they don't need it themselves. The BSP contains
>> scripts that try to identify the platform by looking at some hardware
>> characteristics. I hope we can convince them to install a
>> platform-specific ONIE or at least provide a rescue image for that
>> purpose.
>> 
>> -- Alex
>> 
>>> True !
>> 
>>>> Le 3 mars 2023 à 10:34, Alexander Gall <> a écrit :
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 09:49:52 +0100, Frédéric LOUI
>>>> <> said:
>>>> 
>>>>> Hi Alex, If I look at Asterfusion stratum folder the value should
>>>>> be: x86-64-asterfusion-x312p-48y-t-r0
>>>> 
>>>> Almost. That's the "onie_platform", which is composed as
>>>> ${onie_arch}-${onie_machine}-r${onie_machine_rev}. My stuff uses
>>>> "onie_machine" to identify the system. From what I found in the
>>>> Asterfusion Gitlab, I concluded that this should be
>>>> asterfusion-x312p, but I might be wrong. In any case, the value
>>>> should not be "switch_os".
>>>> 
>>>> -- Alex
>>>> 
>>>>> You should be able to find ONIE IDs (for other TOFINO variant here
>>>>> below:
>>>>> https://filesender.renater.fr/?s=download&token=618af1e5-b6a2-4927-8cb6-2d64a524ff075-b6a2-4927-8cb6-2d64a524ff07
>>>> 
>>>>> Normally cat /etc/machine.conf should provide the same result.
>>>> 
>>>>> I hope this help Frederic
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>> Le 3 mars 2023 à 09:34, Alexander Gall <> a écrit :
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 09:13:19 +0100, Frédéric LOUI
>>>>>> <> said:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Reboot using ONIE.  If you cannot select it from GUB just boot
>>>>>>> from BIOS.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Select ONIE rescue:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> And then provide the output of:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> cat /etc/machine.conf
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Yes, please. I can't download the img.gz files because I forgot
>>>>>> what username/password I need for that. In any case, I'll have to
>>>>>> ask Asterfusion why they are not using the proper machine id
>>>>>> there.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> -- Alex
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> Le 3 mars 2023 à 09:11, mc36 <> a écrit :
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> okk if not then not...
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> from onie i dd-ed the default partitions
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> http://files.nop.hu/inet/barefoot/asterfusion-sda1.img.gz
>>>>>>>> http://files.nop.hu/inet/barefoot/asterfusion-sda2.img.gz
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> go download and see yourself... it arrived with switch_os from
>>>>>>>> the factory
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> br, cs
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>>> On 3/3/23 09:09, Alexander Gall wrote:
>>>>>>>>> On Fri, 3 Mar 2023 09:03:17 +0100, mc36 <> said:
>>>>>>>>>> alex, yess console=ttyS0 was in the installed grub but the
>>>>>>>>>> console was silent until we appended ,115200n8
>>>>>>>>> Yes, the default config does not set the baud rate. This would
>>>>>>>>> have been overridden if the platform had been identified
>>>>>>>>> correctly. That's what the workaround below should do.
>>>>>>>>